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Title:
Kitab a-Dalal fi yawm al-miʾad by Pinḥas ben Yitsḥaḳ
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
259 folios
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Languages:
Arabic
Samaritan
Scripts:
Arabic
Samaritan
Start Date:
1908
End Date:
1909
Date Range:
1908-1909
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Pinḥas ben Yitsḥaḳ ha-Kohen, d 1898
Pinḥas ben Yitsḥaḳ ha-Kohen, d 1898
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Or 10862

Kitab a-Dalal fi yawm al-miʾad by Pinḥas ben Yitsḥaḳ

Contents

Eschatological treatise on the Day of Judgment (Yom al-Din).

Language(s): Arabic, Samaritan

ff. 1v-259v
Author: פינחס בן יצחק בן שלמה, הכהן Pinḥas ben Yitsḥaḳ, ha-Kohen
Title: כתאב אדלאל פי יום אלמיעאד
Title: Kitab a-Dalal fi yawm al-miʾad

Colophon: Colophon on f. 259v.

References

Gaster, Moses, The Samaritan Oral Law and Ancient Traditions 1: Samaritan eschatology (London: Search Publishing Co, 1932).

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Various kinds of paper, some with some without laid lines and chain lines; tre-lune watermark (e.g. ff. 35-36) with countermark: ' F.F. PALAZZUOLI' (ff. 12, 20, 21)..
Extent: 259 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 218 × 162 mm.
Dimensions (written): 153 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Usage stains, smudged ink.

Layout

Columns:1

Section headings are in larger characters.

Hand(s)

Arabic and Samaritan scripts of the early 20th century; in black, red and magenta ink.

Ff. 1-123: copied by Fayed ibn Ishaq ibn Lufti as-Samiri.

Ff. 124-259: copied by Naji ibn Khidr ibn Ishaq ibn Salama ibn Gazal ibn Ishaq.

Decoration

Initial-word panels with simple ink decoration (e.g. ff. 26v, 34v, 41r).

Additions:

Binding

Islamic flap-binding, red cloth. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '1156 יום אלדיך'.

In the digital surrogate the front binding board with the flap open is called back flyleaf (iv)r; the back binding board with flap extended is called back flyleaf (iv)v; and the fore edge is called back flyleaf (v)r.

History

Origin: 1908-1909 West Bank (Shechem)

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1156; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 4 December 1931.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and Crown, Alan David: A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library (London: British Library, 1998).

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10862 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Gaster, M., Catalogue of Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts, in the Gaster Collection, Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts [Photographic reproduction of entries for the British Museum (now British Library) manuscripts as extracted from the original Gaster Handlist), p. 150.
    Gaster, M., Handlist of Gaster Manuscripts held mostly in the British Library (formerly British Museum) London and in the John Rylands Library, Manchester [preface by Brad Sabin Hill (London, Hebrew Section, Oriental and India Office Collections, The British Library, 1995) (handlist, limited distribution), p. 94.
    Allony, N. and D. S. Loewinger,Catalogue of Microfilms in the Institute of Hebrew Microfilms from the British Museum: Gaster Collection.(Jerusalem, 1960), p. 90, no. 951.
    Shunnar, Zuhair,Katalogue Samaritanischer Handschriften I.(Berlin: R. Seitz, 1974), p. 46, no. 82.
    Dexinger, Ferdinand, 'Samaritan Eschatology', in: The Samaritans, ed. Alan D. Crown (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1989), pp. 266-292.
    Crown, Alan David, A catalogue of the Samaritan manuscripts in the British Library (London: British Library, 1998), no. 35.

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